bands that have a good "look"...
 

stupid thread, but what are some bands that you think have an overall cool or interesting look or aesthetic.

i think:
the damned
the velvet underground
most early no wave bands
magma
darkthrone
bloodyminded
boredoms
the cramps
the birthday party
wu tang clan
the butthole surfers
lightning bolt
parliament funkadelic
early thrash bands (slayer, metallica, testament, that whole dirtbag metalhead thing)
mc5
suicide

feel free to post on this if you are that fucking bored

Dir en grey

They have a good good balanced mix between dressy visual kei, and raw violence. The transistion between them kind of make the image work. It might be hard to grasp from pictures, though...

^ fuck. no.


my bloody valentine

Sunn 0))) - Who can resist their cheesy robes?
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - still looking as cool as fuck
Whitehouse (ha ha, only joking)
Babes In Toyland
Gallhammer

The Strokes. Haha.

the white stripes can attribute a lot of their success to the red, white and black aesthetic i think

yeah babes in toyland did look excellent

^^^I saw them on their first British tour in 1992. Kat Bjelland played guiar with more balls than more male guitarists did back then. She also played a mean slide guitar using a broken cassette case. What a hero, eh?

*Thinks about getting hold of "Spanking Machine" again.

kat bjelland is my female hero next to bilinda

there is nothing not to love about her.

Urge Overkill.

Cantanky - She always came across as a nice and decent person in interviews...I wonder how she must have felt about Courtney Love appropriating a lot of her "look"...well, Kat had/has talent to burn, so never mind Mrs Cobain...

Well of course you'll hate it if you go for bands with no look whatsoever.

kat and courtney were still, like, best friends even through all the fighting over the dresses and shit...oh well.
but kat did invent it. courtney popularised it though. for the record i like hole and babes equally.

they do have a look. everyone has a look whether they like it or not. they wore weird jumpers and straight jeans and had long, lank hair.

Ladiiees and Gents, give it up for Kat Bjelland:

she rules

but i like her brown hair better

She's looking damn fine indeed these days, and she's 8 years older than me!

the residents
jandek

Jandek reminds me of Michael Gira these days, or is it the other way round?

the walkmen

Oo Residents. Yes. But they make me uncomfortable more often than not.

They actually do!




Beck has always been a fashionista:




And Tom Waits is the epitome of Downtown NYC COOL:

this page needs more pictures.

servotron.


man or astroman?


causey way


polysics

um

HELLO

Kraftwerk


Squirrel Nut Zippers


Ohhhh yes

spoozys




mr. bungle




sun city girls




master musicians of bukkake

The last band to really look good, as in stylish and well dressed, was the Yardbirds.

Truth.

captain beefheart


caroliner

six finger satellite


brainiac


idiot flesh

and even though i'm not a big fan of their music

the locust

Repped.

i was gonna post devo after polysics but she beat me to it haha..

I love these guys, The Mummies:

Before they went hippie, the Who were definitively cool looking

Les Savy Fav (oh god, they're so trendy !!)

 

 

the picture with the baby is hilarious.

in a plane, in a storm, there we played and there we got bored.

Yeah, the Who's mod look was great. & they were a better band then, too.

SONIC YOUTH


Though you guys already knew that. I think a lot of their fans find their whole persona and style fascinating in that none of them look anything alike!

Richard Youngs

jim o'rourke!!

t locust looked better when they all had the spock cuts.